Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis
Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis traces the rise of environmental awareness in the 19th century, an age of rapid industrialization in the English-speaking world as well as the period in which the sciences of geology, paleontology, meteorology, and ecology developed. The title comes from a lecture by the writer and art critic John Ruskin in which he described the changing appearance of the sky due to industrial pollution. British and American visual and literary artworks by the Romantics, the Pre-Raphaelites, and members of the Arts and Crafts movement are displayed alongside key scientific texts and images, such as works by early 20th-century preservationists John Muir and Mary Hunter Austin. The exhibition also documents water use and oil extraction in the Los Angeles region in the early 20th century. Through nearly 200 items drawn from The Huntington’s collections and on loan from collections in the US and Britain, Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis places our current climate crisis in its historical context, examining the profound changes industrialization and a globalized economy have wrought on everyday life, as charted by scientists, artists, and writers for over 150 years.
"The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales," 1805, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg. Aquatint from printed book. ©The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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